1028. The hardness of calluses, the coldness and heaviness, are certainly brought on as a result of falsities, but these in turn are caused by the yearnings of self-love and the love of the world. These desires twist all truth and goodness into falsities, as anyone can observe. So there are degrees of desires that produce calluses; yet they do not construct them, but create conditions. Hence the conditions mentioned above [1026]. 1748, 26 February.